#I have scripts written out

[simple-persica]

The curse of being a creative with ambitions higher than your current skill level/level of patience

[neunhofferart]

My big storyboard sequence from Jurassic World Chaos Theory Season 3 Episode 2!

Surely Nonna didn't turn our baby dinosaur into meatballs???

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This was probably one of my favorite comedy sequences to board on the show. I had a lot of fun leaning into this kind of horror parody style-- I was inspired by the scene in Monster's Inc. where Sully thinks Boo was turned into a cube of trash, as well as the episode of Tom and Jerry where the dog thinks his kitten friend was baked into a cookie hahahaha.

One of my goals was to make the meat to look as horrifying as possible, and the effects team really took my boards and ran LOL.

Can you spot some of the differences between my boards and the final animation? Some acting eventually got revised, and it was edited a bit more in the final ^^

[aerithisms]

one thing i do think people really need to pull the haterism brakes on is saying it's an insult that ncuti's era is so short. ncuti chose to leave of his own volition. i think this was a completely understandable choice given the contractual limbo the show is in and i don't blame him at all but he was not by any means pushed out the door or written out when he didn't want to be. for all the things it's fair to slate rtd for this is actually not among them.

[rusty-eevee]

AU where Dusknoir convinces Venus to join him

[hyperionwitch-art]

It's just a ring. Misquoting Evelyn Carnahan, what harm ever came from putting on a ring?

YES I know it's been months and months since I had a comic, but my secret is that I just wrote like 4 scripts and I'm RARING to go. Now I just have to balance that with cosplay work. :P In the meantime, enjoy another scene I've had in my head for a while and finally got to put on paper!

(Was this entire comic born out of a desire to reference this scene from Ocean's Eleven? I'll never tell.)

Tev/Dren Masterpost

[lesbianmarrow]

ok this summer i’m gonna do it. i’m gonna finish the script for my graphic novella that’s very transparently inspired by drusilla from buffy the vampire slayer and is about pretty birds and magic singing and somebody who loves you so so much only their idea of love involves reducing you to an object that exists only to please them

[chocodile]

Are there ghosts in your amaranthine world..? Or ancient sailor’s curses?

I may be interested in inventing a character… is that allowed? I’m not much of an artist but I could write something for you!

"Ghosts? How absurd! An educated wizard like myself would never entertain such superstitious nonsense!"

(...Now, if you'll excuse him, he's gotta go research ancient eldritch powers hidden beneath the earth's surface and finish working on a potion made out of his unicorn buddy's magical blood. You know, reasonable, scientifically grounded stuff like that!)

So, to answer your question: Real ghosts = not canon, curses = yes canon, and could resemble a haunting. More explanation of how that would work under the cut:

You can attach enchantments to objects, so there would be nothing stopping you from attaching a baneful curse to something instead. A lasting enchantment generally requires a power source or some kind of upkeep to keep it "charged"... ones worn by a living creature can draw upon the body's own magical energy field... but can also be powered by the "background radiation" present in unusually magically charged environments. There are absolutely "cursed" forests where travelers suddenly find all the food in their rucksack spoiling overnight, areas of ocean where compasses stop working and the wind won't blow, that sort of thing.

So, you could also have a magically charged area that was "haunted" and caused visitors' minds to start playing tricks on them, perceiving illusions, hearing murmurs and clips of nonsense speech, experiencing objects falling over/moving on their own, etc. Any naturally generated "haunted" location would be pretty basic in its illusions, though. Something with more structure (recognizable figures, coherent speech) would have to be an enchantment engineered by a wizard on purpose, and would take quite a lot of skill.

Non-wizards often refer to locations with unsettling or dangerous enchantments as cursed or haunted, though wizards who understand the underlying magical mechanics behind those phenomenons might roll their eyes at that framing, insisting it's no different than when the town healer enchants a necklace to ward off sickness--just undirected and on a larger scale.

ALSO to answer your other question: You are absolutely welcome and encouraged to invent a character if you are so inclined! I would love to see what you come up with!

[constantvariations]

Been thinking a lot lately about Blake's abuse arc, specifically the part where she breaks down immediately after killing Adam. It's a direct parallel to Astarion from BG3, but while I view his breakdown as cathartic, hers I can't

Spoilers for Astarion’s story under the cut

1: Build Up

Astarion told us what Cazador did to him, his voice alone conveying how severely he's affected by it, and we know how Astarion views him. Logistics wise, vampire lords are extremely difficult to kill but to Astarion, who's been under Cazador’s control for centuries, we might as well be taking on a god or even the universe itself! He's terrified to the point of regression, which is agonizing to witness because he came so far from his Act 1 self and is trying so hard to be better, to be truly free

On the other hand, Blake has nothing to say about Adam and even less about their time together. We have no idea of the abuse (mental, physical, and/or emotional) she had to endure and eventually overcome. There's no emotional momentum to carry us through their final confrontation. The fight feels tacked on, like a box to be checked off rather than an earned conclusion to a main character's arc

2: Aftermath

After the deed is done, we have an opportunity to talk to Astarion about how he's feeling, and later that night, we have his personal quest's concluding cutscene where he speaks even more about both his past and his desires for the future. There's proper closure for him and the audience

Blake gets a fade to black and nothing about Adam or her killing him is ever brought up. Does anyone besides Yang even know it happened? I doubt it

3: Breakdown

Astarion’s breakdown happens unexpectedly. He was so adamant that he'd be jubilant, that killing Cazador would be the best day of his life. But, upon seeing the man who tormented him for centuries twitching and bleeding, he sinks to his knees and cries. For who he was, who he could have been, the bittersweet taste of freedom in shadows, the absurd fact that freedom had been only a few stabs away all this time... Astarion feels everything in this moment, and the only thing he can do is let it out

Blake cries call Yang to comfort her, but her sobs are accompanied by her insisting she won't break her promise, she won't run away. Her killing Adam means nothing because she is still scared of not being worthy of love. Her arc is not only incomplete but regressing. Blake never rises to face personal conflict head on. She shrinks in on herself when things get hard. She's still running away, just emotionally rather than physically

It's genuinely distressing to compare the two and see just how shafted Blake's story is. In a way, she's a tragedy in the same way Ascended Astarion is. By never learning they are worthy of love by simply being themselves, they take on a role they think will earn it and lose themselves in the process

[deiaiko]

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[kebriones]

oh lord the "lets make a medusa retelling comic where i have the idea and you do all the work" is back. with a new sales tactic: telling me how rich we'll become.

[briony-tallis]

i did not care for josh/donna.

[bookinit02]

in honor of my s5 announcement this week, here’s one of the scenes from the first episode! hope you all like it🫶🏻

[retroautomaton]

First 3 Pages of Yulis’ comic (sans dialogue) are up for ko-fi members! 💎✨

[cringefail-clown]

me, crying while writing: you dont understand, when i write in my native language im so smart, so eloquent with my words... sentences flow through my fingers, im the master of the keyboard, im begging you believe me-

built-in autocorrect in my program: You've just spelled "irresistible" as "irresistable" you dumb fuck

[sieglinde-freud]

why are they out-Prince Charming eachother… why have i never rolled an s supported couple on these interactions before… my god you guys. happy pride. what the hell

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

“it could mean that they didn't think further than season five and we're about to get a lot of awkward writing.”

Genuinely, I’m pretty sure this exact problem is about to rear it’s ugly head into the plot so hard. Once it becomes obvious enough next season, I think this is about to become the biggest gripe people have with the show.

I don’t subscribe to the “Chloé was rewritten by TA out of spite” theories—however—it is almost **impossible** that season 5 didn’t, at the very least, have the bones of the plot laid out *when it was still intended as the final season,* and then those bones were **heavily** rearranged when contracts were signed for Miraculous Ladybug to continue production beyond that point.

This is quickly having a domino effect on the plot, where storylines are being re-sculpted left and right to somehow tie-up the arc of the previous 5 seasons, whilst still maintaining pre-reveal status quo for the seasons still to come. The most glaring problem with this is, of course, that they had to royally shoot Marinette in the foot to make that work.

I don’t want to put my tin-foil hat on too much, but Adrinette getting together sans reveal is just a symptom of the show continuing past it’s original intended “end of life”. We were likely supposed to get exactly what is holding Adrinette back from being interesting right now—the reveal—in the original midseason finale of season 5 instead of Kwami’s Choice.

What’s an even more cynical thought—if season 5 was the end of the show like intended at one point, there is ZERO chance that Marinette would have even NEEDED to lie to Adrien about his father. *THAT’S* what frustrates me most about the season 5 finale. Not that it’s shocking, not that it subverts expectations, that it’s so glaringly obvious the main character is making a decision simply because the plot for future seasons implodes on itself if she thinks logically for 1.2 seconds. It’s not interesting. It’s only there because they wrote themselves into a corner they never intended to be in 5 years ago.

And as the seasons tick on and on, the cycle is just going to continue to chase itself in circles under the guise of “drama” and “plot”, but in reality the episodic nature of the show means that none of the plot lines will ever conclude in a satisfying way

(Post that inspired this ask)

it is almost **impossible** that season 5 didn’t, at the very least, have the bones of the plot laid out *when it was still intended as the final season,* and then those bones were **heavily** rearranged when contracts were signed for Miraculous Ladybug to continue production beyond that point.

Now that is a theory I can get behind and will even admit to subscribing to. Season five absolutely feels like it was written to be the final season and we know that it was, originally, supposed to be the final season. It's not a conspiracy theory to say, "I think that they may have committed to elements of season five before they got a sixth season and that ended up making season five into a bit of a mess."

I'd be fascinated to know the behind-the-scenes timing of things and what was written before the season-six greenlight and what they were allowed to change after season six became a thing. Things like scripts, lore bibles, and plot lines get signed off on by a lot of people! It's entirely possible that the writers' hands were tied on certain elements of season five. If the leaked, season-five Bible is to be believed, it says that it was signed off by TF1 & Disney and has a date of 1/29/21, about three months before season six was officially announced, implying that major elements of season five may have been set in stone all the way back in early 2021:

[Image description: footer for the leaked Bible reading "Ladybug - Bible FINAL VERSION updated season 5 - approved by TF1 & Disney 1/29/21 - CONFIDENTIAL]

This may mean that the writers literally weren't allowed to make major changes to season five because they'd already gone through the approval process for the overall plot. It's also possible that they could have redone things, they just didn't have time based on production timelines or maybe they did have time and just couldn't think up a new version of season five in the time they had. There's no way to be sure with the limited information we have. Maybe season five is exactly what they wanted it to be!

It's hard to buy that, though, because a lot of the awkward writing makes so much more sense if there was supposed to be an identity reveal at the end of Kwami's Choice. Like why Adrien is worrying about how to tell Marinette that he's leaving, but he never once stops to think about Ladybug. If he knows they're the same person, that's suddenly perfectly understandable.

I also full agree that the lie at the end of season five feels like another stalling tactic and not a piece in a well-crafted narrative. It's really common for the writing to get stilted in TV shows and movie series that get renewed past their expiration dates because no plot can last forever. Even the best writers can't draw a concept out to the end of time and Miraculous doesn't seem have the best writers. Now that they've been greenlit for ten freaking seasons, I think we're in for a wild ride and I don't mean the fun kind. Serious identity shenanigans like the love square are not designed to last for 86+ hours. (The show has 26 20-minute episodes per season, so if you multiply that by 10, you get a little over 86 hours + specials and such.)

I just don't see how they're going to draw out the identity reveal for another five seasons without making the love square a toxic waste dump, but I also don't think that they're ever going to do an identity reveal in the mid game. They're saving that sucker for the end no matter how much it ruins the story. (Watch season six prove me wrong, lol. You never know.)